Jonathan Sturges

Jonathan Sturges (23 August 1740-4 October 1819) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN) from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793, succeeding Roger Sherman and preceding Jonathan Trumbull, Jr..

Biography
Jonathan Sturges was born in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1740, and he became a lawyer in 1772. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1772 to 1784, in the Continental Congress in 1786, and in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793. From 1793 to 1805, he served as an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and he died in 1819.